Menken Alan
Alan Menken's music and lyrics have become an integral part of our lives over the past forty years. He is
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Atina: Evil Queen of the Galaxy, Real Life Funnies, Little
Shop of Horrors, Kicks, The Dream on Royal Street, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol, Weird
Romance, King David, The Little Mermaid, Sister Act, Leap of Faith, Newsies, Aladdin, The Hunchback of
Notre Dame and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Among the songs of film scores, let us mention The Little Mermaid,
Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules,
The Shaggy Dog, Home of the Range, Enchanted, Tangled and Mirror Mirror. He wrote the songs for the Rocky movies
V - "The Measure of a Man", Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - "My Christmas Tree", Life With Mikey - "Cold Enough to
Snow", Noel - "Winter Light" and Captain America: First Avenger - "Star Spangled Man". For television, he wrote songs for Sesame Street,
for ABC's Lincoln and for episodes of The Neighbors and ABC's Galavant. "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Neighbors
the Beast, A Whole New World, Colors of the Wind and Go the Distance. In 2012, he won Tony and Drama Desk awards for
for his score to Newsies. In his lifetime, he has won more Oscars than anyone else: eight Oscars - four for Best Score and four for Best
song, eleven Grammy Awards (including song of the year for "A Whole New World"), seven Golden Globes, the London Evening Standard
Award, the Olivier Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award. Other notable achievements include the launch of
into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Billboard chart-topping single "A Whole New World", and the most successful Pocahontas album.
In 2001, he was named a Disney Legend. He has earned two doctorates - Fine Arts University New York and North Carolina School
of Arts. In 2010, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Upcoming works include A Bronx Tale, God Bless
You Mr. Rosewater, Sausage Party, and a new Universal Pictures musical project that has yet to be named.